HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Napoleonic Wars started as a preemptive war by Revolutionary France to forestall the attempt of the ancien régimes of Europe to suppress the French revolution, but soon became a war of conquest with the intention of “revolution export” by France.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the Allies entered Paris in March 1814, Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to the island of Elba. He returned to France in March 1815 and rebuilt his army, but he was defeated by Allied forces under the duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was a savior of France. If there had been no Napoleon, the Republic would not have survived. Many of the institutions started by Napoleon were copied in countries that he conquered-Italy, Germany, and Poland, and laid the foundations for the modern state.
Detailed explanation-4: -Universal adult franchise was not the feature of Napoleonic code.